<?php
/**
 * <https://y.st./>
 * Copyright © 2016 Alex Yst <mailto:copyright@y.st>
 * 
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org./licenses/>.
**/

$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => '<code>&lt;q/&gt;</code> tags',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2016/10/10.jpg" alt="Autumn in Springfield" class="framed-centred-image" width="811" height="480"/>
<p>
	Current countdowns:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>7 days until my old domain registrar can no longer counter my charge dispute</li>
	<li>13 months worth of weblog entries to correct misuse of the $a[XHTML] <code>&lt;q/&gt;</code> tag in</li>
	<li>249 scheme-specific $a[URI]-parsing classes to write and add to <a href="https://git.vola7ileiax4ueow.onion/y.st./include.d">include.d</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
	I&apos;ve repaired the &quot;latest month&quot; and &quot;latest year&quot; links, so they won&apos;t be causing any future problems.
	It&apos;s worth noting though that the pages on which these links occur aren&apos;t accessible via internal links on this website.
	Rather, they&apos;re directory indexes that exist to provide sane output when someone tries to load a page by removing the file names from $a[URI]s of my journal pages.
	I&apos;ve also gotten my <a href="/a/canary.txt">warrant canary</a> back up and operational.
	That&apos;s quite a bit overdue, so while I&apos;m fixing up the website, I figured that I should get the canary back into maintenance.
	I&apos;ve also gone through seven months worth of journal entries, replacing all my many misuses of the <code>&lt;q/&gt;</code> tag with better markup for each instance.
	In the past, I didn&apos;t understand correctly what that tag was for, and now I have to pay for my past ignorance.
	I shouldn&apos;t fix that many months at a time again though, doing so really drained me.
</p>
<p>
	Park Ave $a[CD]s sent me a PayPal invoice today.
	I could now pay through PayPal without an account.
	I&apos;ve already payed <a href="https://marcwithac.bandcamp.com/">Marc With a C</a> for the cassette though, so as the invoice looks like it&apos;ll expire today, I&apos;m going to ignore it.
	My guess is that they&apos;ll write back though, so I&apos;ll have to deal with them eventually.
	Not today though.
</p>
<p>
	I wrote up a couple partial classes in $a[PHP] several months ago, but never committed them in Git because they were in a very broken state.
	If I recall, my <a href="https://git.vola7ileiax4ueow.onion/y.st./include.d/releases">include.d</a> classes relating to $a[URI]s of the <code>aaas:</code> and <code>aaa:</code> schemes aren&apos;t even compatible with changes that I made elsewhere while writing them, and I&apos;d been planning to throw out these classes and start fresh.
	If I recall, the compatibility issue was introduced when I made a huge overhaul to the main <code>\\st\\y\\uri</code> class, but I&apos;m not completely sure that that was the problem.
	In any case, I&apos;ve now thrown those classes out so that I can rebuild them better.
</p>
<p>
	There were enough posts made by other students in both of my courses to complete all my replies on both, so that&apos;s the schoolwork that I worked on today.
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
		An exam could be a written test, which clearly has no place in physical education, but you could also consider some sort of physical endurance test as an examination.
		However, this type of examination wouldn&apos;t really be fair on the students.
		People don&apos;t all share the same physical capabilities.
		At least at my schools, physical education grades seemed to have been based on effort instead of such unfair tests of physical capabilities.
	</p>
	<p>
		I used to be in an orchestra course, and we didn&apos;t have examinations in that.
		I was also in a glass art and graphics course that I don&apos;t recall for sure if we had examinations in.
		If we did though, the exams were of little importance.
		I&apos;ve also been in at least one literature course in which we wrote a lot of essays, but we didn&apos;t really have any exams or tests.
	</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
	<p>
		I&apos;m not sure that discussion forums are the type of examinations that are meant in the discussion question.
		I mean, if we count the discussion forum as an examination, pretty much any graded assignment can be an examination, so a question of how much emphasis is placed on examinations wouldn&apos;t make any sense.
		After all, 100% of our grade is based on graded assignments, which would mean that in all cases, a full emphasis is placed on examinations and nothing else.
	</p>
	<p>
		I agree, the online setting of University of <span class="redacted">[REDACTED]</span> does make learning more flexible.
		We can work on schoolwork when time allows instead of at specific times when we might be otherwise busy.
		Online school isn&apos;t always as flexible as it is here though; it&apos;s something that University of <span class="redacted">[REDACTED]</span> is doing right.
		At my last school, we had scheduled live seminars that both interfered with scheduling and weren&apos;t even very helpful for the learning process.
		Attendance was mandatory though.
	</p>
	<p>
		Nice table, by the way.
		I could totally draw one of those up in XHTML and CSS, but I have no idea how to set up a table in a University of <span class="redacted">[REDACTED]</span> post, let alone color the text and background of one of the rows differently than the other rows.
	</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
	<p>
		I agree that examinations can be a lot easier for people gifted with certain natural skills than others, but like you said, that can be said about almost everything in life.
		I used to much prefer examinations as a way to assess skills, as I was a fairly good test-taker, but I think that I prefer essay questions now.
		I don&apos;t score quite as well on essays, but writing essays forces me to think more, so in addition to assessing my knowledge, the writing of the essay can also help me improve my understanding of the material.
	</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve never thought about examinations being used for statistical analysis.
	</p>
	<p>
		Statistical analysis and assessment of knowledge are both possible via means other than exams though.
		I&apos;m not arguing against exams, they seem like a decent measuring tool to me.
		However, any graded assignment could be used for such measurement and statistics.
		How do you feel about examinations compared to other types of graded work, such as essays or daily work?
	</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
	<p>
		It really would be nice if more people sought to better the human race instead of acting on selfish motives that harm us all instead.
		It must have been sad for Samir Moussa to see the suffering of the world, but maybe of more people could see that suffering, more people would begin to act out of kindness and a desire to help the world instead of out of greed.
	</p>
	<p>
		Globalization is certainly changing what it means to be competitive.
		It used to be that businesses had to compete only with others in the vicinity, but now, customer options have really opened up.
		In order to remain in business, most people and companies have to compete on a global scale.
	</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
	<p>
		Yeah, the people of different regions have more experience dealing with the hazards of their respective homes, including how to treat diseases native to the area.
		Experimenting is fine, but perhaps western medicine should try first taking a look at solutions from around the world instead of developing an entirely different treatment from scratch.
		Of course, once the known cure is studied, perhaps it can be improved.
		It might be possible to improve on tribal medicines, using them as a starting point.
	</p>
	<p>
		I think that it&apos;s less important that these cultures be preserved and more important that their *knowledge* be preserved.
		It&apos;s a fact that cultures change over time, with or without outside influence from globalization.
		In theory, attempting to preserve cultures can be a good thing, but we have to be careful not to allow the cultures of the past hold us back from a better tomorrow.
		You&apos;re probably right that slowing down globalization could be useful to keep the overwhelming effects of westernization from wiping out people&apos;s ways of life.
		Given time to properly blend local culture and knowledge with global culture and knowledge, we could see much better results than we&apos;re seeing now.
	</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
	<p>
		Indigenous medicine, just like western medicine, certainly shouldn&apos;t be trusted blindly.
		Until the two are compared item by item, and the best of both taken to form the best merged set of knowledge, indigenous medicine and western medicine will each have their respective strengths and weaknesses.
	</p>
	<p>
		The United States certainly does need to make some drastic changes.
		The United States government has become a puppet to the corporations, and what&apos;s best for the people is largely ignored.
		Voting based on feelings instead of facts is a horrid idea though and will only lead to things becoming worse.
		A better idea would be to do some fact checking if you don&apos;t trust the initial sources from which you heard the facts.
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
	I probably should have looked at my notes on nuclear energy to see if I could improve them.
	I know that I should have gone over my essay on culture-preservation today.
	However, fixing far too many <code>&lt;q/&gt;</code> tags at once left me in no condition to effectively to work on schoolwork.
	I&apos;ll try not to make that mistake again.
	I should limit myself to a maximum of fixing one month per day, and spend the rest of my day doing something more energizing.
	I could work on include.d, or for that matter, start with schoolwork before doing other things.
</p>
<section id="docmod">
	<h2>Document modifications</h2>
	<p>
		On <a href="/en/weblog/2017/11-November/02.xhtml">2017-11-02</a>, this journal page was modified in order to redact the name of the university.
	</p>
</section>
END
);
